[Qgis-user] nightly build has lost user profile

[Gavin Fleming]

Thanks Gene

I overwrote .qgis2 with .qgis and qgis2.conf with qgis.conf and all is 
well again.

On 14/04/2013 09:30, gene wrote:
> The .qgis or .qgis2 folders contains only the plugins (in
> /.qgis/python/plugins) and the SQLite file(/.qgis/qgis.db) which contains
> only the projections. The custom general settings (layout, PostGIS, wms,
> etc.) are saved in:
>
>      - Linux: settings are saved in a text file:
> $HOME/.config/QuantumGIS/qgis.conf
>      - Mac OS X: settings are saved in a plist file:
> $HOME/Library/Preferences/org.qgis.qgis.plist
>      - Windows: settings are stored in the registry
>
> Using Mac OS X and as this version uses a new folder ~/.qgis2 for plugins
> and a new qgis.db and as I did not want to reinstall all the plugins, rather
> than copy, I created symbolic links in the .qgis2 folder pointing to .qgis
>
>     ln -s /Users/me/.qgis/plugins  /Users/me/.qgis2/plugins
>     ln -s /Users/me/.qgis/qgis.db /Users/me/.qgis2/qgis.db
>
> and it works
>
> The old customisation file is  in
> /Users/me/Library/Preferences/org.qgis.QGIS.plist and I did the same thing:
>
>    ln -s org.qgis.QGIS.plist org.qgis.QGIS2.plist
>
> and everything works perfectly, without incompatibilities
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Gavin

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